intelligible
capable of being understood; comprehensible; clear: an intelligible response.
Philosophy. apprehensible by the mind only; conceptual.
Origin of intelligible
1Other words for intelligible
Other words from intelligible
- in·tel·li·gi·ble·ness, noun
- in·tel·li·gi·bly, adverb
- half-in·tel·li·gi·ble, adjective
- half-in·tel·li·gi·bly, adverb
- self-in·tel·li·gi·ble, adjective
- sem·i-in·tel·li·gi·ble, adjective
- sem·i-in·tel·li·gi·bly, adverb
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How to use intelligible in a sentence
Those statutes might have been written with the older “intelligible principle” rule in the background, and they might be vulnerable to the new nondelegation doctrine.
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He muttered rather than intelligibly expressed a reply, which seemed, however, to give his young wife the requisite indication.
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army | Charles Alexander GordonAnd she was frightened of strange cabmen, and by no means sure that she could intelligibly explain the address.
Grandmother Dear | Mrs. MolesworthIt came slowly down, and tried hard to stop, in order that its source might speak intelligibly to the visitors.
Somehow Good | William de Morgan
In another case a witness was produced who could hardly speak intelligibly.
After three days she ceased to talk intelligibly, and at the end of a week she ceased to speak altogether.
Mauprat | George Sand
British Dictionary definitions for intelligible
/ (ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəbəl) /
able to be understood; comprehensible
philosophy
capable of being apprehended by the mind or intellect alone
(in metaphysical systems such as those of Plato or Kant) denoting that metaphysical realm which is accessible to the intellect as opposed to the world of mere phenomena accessible to the senses
Origin of intelligible
1Derived forms of intelligible
- intelligibility or intelligibleness, noun
- intelligibly, adverb
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